By Katy Grimes at Flashreport

April 24, 2016

On the heels of the Sacramento Taxpayer Association awarding the bankrupt Sacramento Regional Transit its annual GOLDEN FLEECE AWARD, the Sacramento Bee published a story claiming Regional Transit “may be better than you think.” Rather than acting like a watchdog on government, the Bee appears to be the Public Relations firm of RT.

GOLDEN FLEECE AWARDs are bestowed upon public officials, governmental agencies and organizations for their “wasteful, ridiculous, or ironic use of taxpayers’ money.” The SacTax FLEECE AWARD went to the entire Board of Directors of Sacramento Regional Transit, for raising bus and light rail fares to the highest level in California, after first proposing the highest fares in the entire nation. RT managers have defended the rate increases because of RT’s of growing deficits, and declining ridership – so they want to increase the fares. Such brilliance is only evident in politics, where politicians respond not to market forces, but instead to political forces. (see below for RT Board)

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